It appeared to me that New York was quite a real city, and European geographies (apt to err, of course, in matters of detail) usually locate it in America.
— from Your United States: Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett

From the Barren Lands to the edge of the southern watershed the earth lay under from four to six feet of snow, and from the middle of December until late in February the temperature did not rise above thirty degrees below zero, and remained for the most of the time between fifty and sixty.
— from The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild by James Oliver Curwood